Most people aren’t dumb enough to get caught out by something like this. Anybody familiar with the ranking system will know they are not the genuine, reputable members by their profile. As always though, it’s good to act by leaving negative trust if/when you spot stuff like this.
The problem is, potential clients or the project managers who handle their Bitcoin accounts are mostly unaware of the forum ranks. They can easily be tricked by those scammers. So, even sending negative tag is not enough for these accounts. Such accounts should be banned right away, which has happened already in this case and I am happy for that.
We have seen some scam accusations and reputation threads in this forum about these scammers. Some of them even managed to scam the clients of the managers. We have a lot of scammers our there, who are just looking for opportunity.
Yea, the right thing was done, i.e permanent ban.
As you noted, so many clients outside doesn't know the forum's ranking system, even for those that know, the scammer might claim it's a backup account. So, there's every chances that people would be scammed.
This made me remember one smart scam that was pulled by these scammers. They created a telegram account with the managers username (I think AB De Royse777). They went on to message a potential client and at the same time messaging Royse. Whatever feedback Royse gave, they related it to the potential client as if it was them bringing the feedback.
I was so amazed when I learnt about this.